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This enables the use of functions such as encode() and decode() with UUID values, allowing them to be converted to and from alternative formats like base64 or hex. The cast maps the 16-byte internal representation of a UUID directly to a bytea datum. This is more efficient than going through a text forepresentation. Bump catalog version. Author: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org> Co-authored-by: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@tigerdata.com> Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru> Reviewed-by: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJ7c6TOramr1UTLcyB128LWMqita1Y7%3Darq3KHaU%3Dqikf5yKOQ%40mail.gmail.com
PostgreSQL Database Management System
This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL database management system.
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions. This distribution also contains C language bindings.
Copyright and license information can be found in the file COPYRIGHT.
General documentation about this version of PostgreSQL can be found at https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/. In particular, information about building PostgreSQL from the source code can be found at https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/installation.html.
The latest version of this software, and related software, may be obtained at https://www.postgresql.org/download/. For more information look at our web site located at https://www.postgresql.org/.